The School hosts one of the most impressive Fabrication
Facilities for a School of Architecture and Planning in the United
States. It provides students the resources to build and test their
designs at full scale and learn digital fabrication on the latest
CNC and rapid prototyping technologies.

The School of Architecture and Planning and the University at
Buffalo offer a range of financial support opportunities for
students. Resources range from financial aid to scholarships to
student employment.

Both programs in architecture and planning offer competitive and
nominative scholarships and fellowships to support your academic
pursuits. Scholarships and fellowships are awarded on a highly
competitive basis.

The Dean’s Council is a leadership group of friends of the
School of Architecture and Planning dedicated to raising
the global profile of the school and advancing its academic
programs and research enterprise. Members of the Dean’s
Council include distinguished alumni and leading
professionals, from firm executives to educators. As champions of
the Buffalo School, members leverage their diverse expertise and
leadership positions to forge new connections and build the
school's network of support.

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we celebrate our impact around the globe. We also encourage
you to stay connected with the Buffalo School community by engaging
in our alumni programs. We are extremely excited about where we are
headed together and welcome your continued energy in the adventure.

Faculty

The faculty in the School of Architecture and Planning is
composed of a mix of world-renowned scholars, leading architects
and planners, and a diverse range of adjunct faculty selected from
the professional community.

Irene Ayad, who received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, is
an architectural historian and urbanist with particular interest in
20th century western and non-western architecture as well as in
community development and historic preservation.

So-Ra Baek's primary research areas of interest include the
connection between public health and the built environment and the
role of race/ethnicity and acculturation in the relationship
between physical activity and neighborhood design.

Paul L. Battaglia, AIA, has been an Adjunct Associate Professor
at UB since 1985 teaching Lighting and Acoustics: Environmental
Controls 2. He also teaches a seminar on Aural Architecture and has
taught Generic Building Types and various architectural studios in
the Millard Fillmore College.

Nicholas Bruscia is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the
Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, where he
is also a researcher in the Center for Architecture and Situated
Technologies (CAST).

Before joining the Department of Environmental Planning and
Design at UB in 1983, Professor Sam Cole worked in a wide variety
of national and international positions in national, urban, and
regional planning.

New to both the city of Buffalo and the university, Gregory
Delaney is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University’s
Knowlton School of Architecture, where he studied architecture
(B.S. in Architecture, 2008) and architecture criticism (M.A.S. in
Criticism, 2010).

Ashima Krishna is an architect, historic preservation planner
and educator. Her research focuses on three broad areas related to
cultural heritage and its preservation: the management of historic
urban landscapes in developing countries like India, issues in
adaptively reusing religious historic structures and landscapes,
and contemporary problems with world heritage sites in the
developing world.

The work of Dennis Maher has ranged from a localized form of
civic activism and material experimentation to a synthetic
proposition for re-imagining the post-industrial environment
through a variety of modes and media.

Erkin Özay is a registered architect and an urbanist with a
research focus on urban asset distribution practices and their
spatial impacts on the city, with a specific concentration on the
design of educational environments.

Dr. Page’s research focuses on a variety of issues related
to environmental planning, which involves the study of how to use
the planning process to minimize the negative effects of the
natural environment on humans and of human settlements on the
natural environment.

Nicholas B. Rajkovich, PhD, AIA is an Assistant Professor at the
University at Buffalo. His research investigates the intersection
of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and adaptation to climate
change.

Christopher Romano is a Research Assistant Professor at the
University at Buffalo, State University of New York and a
researcher within the Material Culture Research Group where he
co-directs the Sustainable Futures study abroad program in the
cloud forest of Costa Rica.

For four decades, Lynda H. Schneekloth has connected activism,
design practice, applied research, teaching, scholarship, and
academic service with deep theoretical work on the fundamental
dynamics of professional and citizen engagement in the practice of
“placemaking.” Schneekloth has thought deeply and
strategically about working in the world even as she embraced the
long-haul labor of healing that world. In the process she has
helped expand the knowledge in our field, made a tangible impact on
the “beloved places” she has cared about, and nurtured
a generation of skillful and critical practitioners.

Mark Shepard holds a joint appointment in the Departments of
Architecture and Media Study. He received a Master of Science in
Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, a Master of
Fine Arts in Combined Media from Hunter College, City University of
New York, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell
University.

Dr. Silverman's research focuses on the non-profit sector, the
role of community-based organizations in urban neighborhoods,
education reform, shrinking cities, and inequality in inner city
housing markets.

Associate Professor Hadas A. Steiner received a Ph.D. in the
History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Masters degree in Art
History from University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of
Art in Architecture from Columbia University.

Beth Tauke is Associate Dean in the School of Architecture and
Planning at the University at Buffalo - State University of New
York, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, and
Project Director in the Center for Inclusive Design and
Environmental Access (IDEA), the leading research center on
universal design in the built environment in the U.S.

Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. research focuses on a
historical and contemporary analysis of distressed urban
neighborhoods, social isolation and race and class issues among
people of color, especially African Americans and
Latinos.

Kerry Traynor has been working in the field of historic
preservation for over 20 years. Professor Traynor has a diverse
background including work in the private and public sectors, as
well as in academia.

Brad Waleshas 28 years experience working years as
a sole practitioner registered in NY and NJ. His work focuses on
community-based green projects, focusing on mixed-use design,
streetscape and pocket park design, and passive solar design, with
an overall emphasis on issues of durability.

Sue Weidemann, PhD, is an environmental psychologist who, for
over 35 years, has studied the relationships between people and the
places and spaces they use, through her research, teaching, and
consulting.

Two UB faculty members, including Ernest Sternberg, professor
and chair of urban and regional planning, have co-authored a book
on the planning decisions and engineering challenges that surround
one of this nation’s most significant pieces of public
infrastructure: bridges.

Jin Young Song, assistant professor of architecture, has
received funding from the New York State Council on the
Arts to develop a facade that imitates the leaves of a tree in
its dappling and diffusion of natural light.

An expert on economic modeling related to natural and man-made
disasters, JiYoung Park is co-editor of a new book that assesses
simulated events ranging from attacks on sports stadiums to the
spread of foot-and-mouth disease.